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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, Passed in 2014, PA 98-0632, also known as Lauren's
3Law, requires all Illinois high schools and secondary schools
4to teach CPR and AED instruction and training as part of their
5Health curriculum; and
 
6    WHEREAS, The CPR and AED training must be incorporated into
7the Health curriculum of a school, but it is not required to be
8within that specific course time; the law does not specify
9content, but both the American Red Cross and the American Heart
10Association require that content must cover lecture,
11demonstration, and practice; and
 
12    WHEREAS, Lauren's Law does not require mouth-to-mouth,
13mouth-to-facemask, or rescue breathing training but must
14include hands-on skill delivery; the instruction may be
15delivered in person, by video, online, by webinar, or by the
16reading of manuals; and
 
17    WHEREAS, Many schools do not have CPR or AED training as
18part of their curriculum, or they have the training on their
19syllabus but do not comply; currently, there are no
20consequences for non-compliance; and
 
21    WHEREAS, Untrained bystanders who witness cardiac arrest

 

 

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1do not know how to respond to a cardiac emergency, which loses
2valuable response time; according to the American Heart
3Association, over 350,000 people die from out of hospital
4cardiac arrest each year; a person has a 10% change of
5surviving an out of hospital cardiac arrest; early recognition
6of a cardiac arrest and immediate quality CPR is the link to
7survival; bystander CPR can increase survival by 2-3 times;
8therefore, be it
 
9    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
10HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
11we strongly urge the Illinois State Board of Education to
12enforce compliance of Lauren's Law at all Illinois high schools
13and secondary schools and to encourage school districts to
14include the program as early as the 6th grade; and be it
15further
 
16    RESOLVED, That we strongly urge all public schools to
17become Heart Safe Schools by completing a Cardiac Emergency
18Response Plan (CERP); and be it further
 
19    RESOLVED, As part of the CERP, we urge schools to clearly
20identify school staff that have CPR and AED certification and
21offer non-certification CPR and AED training to other staff
22members; and be it further
 

 

 

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1    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
2delivered to the Illinois State Board of Education.